Projection apparatus.



W. L. PATTERSON. PROJECTION APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1.905.

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WILLIAM L. IPATTEBSON, 0F RQCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO BAUSCH & LOMB DPTICAL COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PEOJECTIOIQ' APPARATUS.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Digit] 17, 1911}.

Application filed nugnst 5. 1.905. Serial No. 272,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Li Pn'rrcir son, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Proage thereof upon a suitable screen, the construction and arrangement of the parts ensbling the objects to be handled and vpositione with the greatest facility to enable the best optical results to be obtained."

To these end other-ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combine tions and arran ementsof )arts to be hereinafter more fully describe the novel fee- I tures being pointed out particularly in the claims hereunto annexed.

In the drawing: Figure l is aside elevation of an apparatus constructed iu n'ccord- -once with my. invention, the parts being erranged for pro ecting opaque objects. Fig. 2 illustrates a pro ectionnppsratus arranged to receive transparent objects such as the ordmary lantern slides, the lamp being omitted; and Fig. 3 is a central vertical-sectional View of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1;

The same characters of reference in the several views designate similar parts.

In the present embodiment of my inven- 'tion I the entire projecting apparatus is 1 mounted upon a rigid, preferably metallic bed 1 pivoted at the rear as at 2 to a suit-- able base 3, leveling screws 4 beingprovided 1 between the base and the forward portion of the bed to permit adjustment of the bed and the projecting apparatus thereon, in a yerticsl plane. At the rear of the bed is mount- .ed a. lamp or other suitable illuminating dcvlce 5, and in front of the lamp is provided optical-bench 6, the letter having a hearing or Way 7 thereon extending longitudi-i nally of the bed. Operatin on this hearing is a slide 8 having a stun nrd thereon for supporting a system of condensing lenses which may be of any suitable type, that shown embodying the forward lens element a. the rear lens element 10 and the removable liquid cooling-tank 11 between them, a receptacle 12 being provided in front of the condensing system to receive theordinary transparentslides.

Operating longitudinally of the way 7 is a slide 13 attached to. a chamber 14, the lower portion of this chamber being enlarged or of suitable dimensions to receive books and other articles in such a Way that the portion to be projected will occupy the area A, B, a door-15 being provided at one side of this chamber to admit the articles and a handhole 16 being formed in the door preferably to enable the articles to be un nipul'ated conveniently while illuminated.

The upper portion of the chamber is in line with the condensing system. and is closed the top opening 19 to prevent leakage of light, while a suitable projecting lens '21 is fitted in the opening 17 in line with the optical center of the condensing system, (see Fig. 2). As the light rays from the lamp except for the openings 17 and 18 at'the pass through the condensing system, a transparent object or slide placed in the receptacle 12 will be illuminated, and therays from this object will pass horizontally across the upper portion of chamber let and through the projecting lens 21 and in this way the image of the object is enlarged and projected 1n magnified form upon the screen. Opaque ob ects, however, cannot be illuminated in the manner above described, and according to my invention a high illuminw tion of opaque objects isattained by placing the object within the area A-.B in the lowerportion of chamber 14, the surface. of the object to be illuminated lying sub stantielly at right angles to the plane of the screen. A projecting lens 21 is fitted in the openin 19 in the top of the chamber above the o ject, having a mirror or, prism 22 adjacent thereto for ,divertin the rays from the vertical to. a, substantially horizontal direction in order thntthefimagemey' tem and converge toward the focal point- F on the mirror 23", and from the mirror the rays diverge in a deflected course to the area. ofillumination A-B usually on' the bottom of the'chember, producing a high illumination of an object occupying the said area. The rays emanating from the object will pass upwardly through the projecting lens 21 and are then directed in the desired direction by the mirror 22, the latter being.

preferably adjustable at 22 to enable the image to be readily positioned on the screen. The best results have been obtained by the use of mirrors or reflecting surfaces for do fleeting the rays at 22 and 23*, but the invention comprehcnds the rise broadly of various kinds of deflectors tor diverting the rays, as prisms and other devices could be employed for this purpose.

Projecting apparatus constructed in ac cordance with my invention is capable of projecting images from either transparent or opaque objects, and a high illumination of the object is attained, particularly when operating with. opaque objects. Moreover, the construction and arrangement of the parts is such that they may be conveniently handled and manipulated, and as the lamp, condensing system and the chamber embodying the optical elements of the ap imratus are all mounted on the rigid bed, the optical center is always rigidly maintained.

Iclaim as my invention:

1. In a projection apparatus, the combination with a condensing system embodying a plurality oflcns elements for projecting converging rays, of a reflector arranged to receive the converging rays and to deflect them as diverging rays to one side of the optical axis of the condensing system, and a projecting device arranged on the opposite side of the axis of the condensing system and receiving rays from an object on that side to which the rays are deflected by the re Hector.

24. In a projection apparatus, the combination with a condensing system embodying a plurality of lens elements projecting converging rays, of a chamber receiving conpassed port and adapted to receive emcee verging rays from said system, a reflector arranged in the chamber receiving the converging rays and directing them as divergs ing rays to one side of the chamber, said chamber being provided with an opening in the side opposite to that on which the rays are thrown by the reflector, and a deflectoimarranged without the chamber in proximity to said openin to receive the rays therethrough an deflect them.

3. In a projection apparatus, the combination with a chamber, of a condensing system arrangcdexteriorly oi the chamber and projecting converging rays therein, deflector arranged Within the chamber, receiving the conver ing rays from the condensing system and dc ecting them as diverging rays to-one side of the chamber, a projecting device arranged at the opposite side of the chamber to receive the rays from an object at the side to which the rays are deflected by the reflector, and a deflector receiving rays from the projecting device and deflecting-them in a direction at an angle to the optical axis of the device.

4-. In projecting apparatus, the combina tion with an illuminating device, and a condenser therefor of a chamber arranged to receive the convergent rays from the illuminating device and having a horizontal supthe object to be lllumimited, a deflector located at the focal point of the rays for deflectin the rays from the illuminating device an directing divcrgcnt rays upon the object, and a second deflector for directing the rays from the object upon a screen.

5. In projecting apparatus, the combination with av condensing system, of a. chamber arranged to receive the rays from the com (lensing system, an adjustable reflechbr l0- catcd at the focus of the said condensing system and reflecting convergent rays received by it from the condensing system, as divergent rays to an object to be illuminated and a projecting lens for projecting an image of thcilluininntcd object.

o. In a projection apparatus, the combina tion with a condensing system, of a chamber arranged to receive rays from the condensing system, and having a. horizontal support and an opening in its top above the support, a reflector located at the focus of the condcnsing system, adapted to reflect rays onto an object on thesupport,.and a second re-' llector nrrange'd above the opening to direct the rays from the object upon a screen.

\V ILLIAM L. PATTERSON.

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